Panel-mounted cabinet



Sept. 13, 1955 J. KIRKWOOD, JR PANEL-MOUNTED CABINET Filed Jan. 24, 1952 A TTOHNE Y5.

United States Patent 2,717,819 PANEL-MOUN TED CABINET James Kirkwood, Jr., Great Neck, N Y., assignor to erican Hospital upply Corporation, Evanston, Iil., a corporation of Illinois Application January 24, 1952, Serial No. 268,082 2 Claims. (Cl. 312-245) This invention relates to a panel-mounted cabinet, and more particularly to a wardrobe cabinet adapted to be presented in rooms having two beds and in wards having several beds. There is usually a little available space about the door or room walls adjacent the door, but this space has generally been regarded door or wall. Yet another object is to provide a cabinet structure adapted for suspension upon a door or Wall whereby the operation of the door tends to keep adjacent doors of the cabinet in closed position. A still further object is to provide in a cabmet structure of the charrendering them available through the opening of the doors. Other specific objects and advantages will appear as the specification proceeds.

The invention is shown, in an illustrative embodiment, by the accompanying drawing, in Which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of a cabinet embodying my invention; Fig. 2, a transverse sectional view showgiven, the cabinet is illustrated as mounted upon a wall 11 in Fig. 2 and upon the room door 12 in Fig. 3.

The cabinet 10 is provided with end walls 14 and with a partition wall 15 extending forwardly and secured at its forward end to a front center panel 16. As shown more clearly in Fig. 4, the

wider than the side walls Patented Sept. 13, 1955 4. A top wall 17 closes the upper ends of the cabinets and provided with handles I prefer to equip the doors 20 on their inner sides with hangers 23 adapted to support hats, coats, or other wearing apparel, and I provide shelves 24 within the cabinet and below the hangers 23, the shelves 24 having 11. The shelves 24 are provided with metal bars 27 adapted for supporting coat hangers. The bars may be spot-welded to the shelf, or otherwise secured thereto.

Operation In the operation of the cabinet door adjacent the room door, the operation being shown as described in Fig. 2. Similarly, when the cabinet is upon a room door 12, and should the cabinet door adjacent the wall swing outwardly, the action of within the cabinet.

The tapered front Walls of the cabinet enable the do r to be swung with ments of the building or institution.

While in the foregoing specification, I have set forth a specific structure in member provides a rear wall for said cabinet structure, 2. The structure of claim 1 in which said side walls a center wall intermediate said side walls and extendand said center wall substantially abut said panel meming forwardly from said panel member, a front panel her, and in which said panel member is a door. secured to said center wall along the forward edge thereof and extending laterally therefrom on both sides 5 References Clted 1n the file 0f t111$ Patent at substantially right angles thereto, said top and bot- UNITED STATES PATENTS tom walls tapering inwardly and forwardly from the side walls and to said center wall, doors hingedly car- 32 5 g ried by said side walls and being swingable inwardlyto p 1,033,711 Leland July 23, 1912 closed position with the inner edges thereof ad acent said 1.) 1 644 716 F O t 11 1927 front panel, and shelves extending-between said side walls 1663820 i c 1928 and center wall, said shelves havingforward edges taper- 483519 es ing inwardly and forwardly toward said center wall, e f 2 1930 1,975,779 Church Oct. 9, 1934 the forward edges thereof being, substantially parallel Q 000 402 Mm h u Ma 7 1935 with said doors when in closed position and beingspaced 15 e e y therefrom whereby articles can depend freely between 2293267 OBnen 1942 2,380,379 Attwood July 31, 1945 the shelves and the doors when the doors are. closed. 

